Insurance may be disrupted for 10,000 low-income Hoosiers

12:53 AM,
Dec. 4, 2013

Written by

John Russell and Maureen Groppe
john.russell@indystar.com

More than 10,000 low-income Hoosiers are receiving letters in the mail informing them that they will lose their Indiana-sponsored health insurance on Dec. 31.

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration has sent two rounds of letters to 10,631 people telling them they no longer qualify for the Healthy Indiana Plan, an affordable health insurance program for low-income adults, because the state says they make too much to qualify under tighter guidelines.

That figure amounts to about one-third of the people now insured by the program. ...